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From Common Dreams: As many schools are racing to adopt the latest technologies—tablets, e-readers, cell phones—in their classrooms, low income students and poorly funded school districts are being left in the dust. A survey of middle and high school teachers released Thursday found that the growing gap in internet access…

From Slashdot: Twitter’s second transparency report reinforces what many already know: governments want online user data, and to yank select content from the Internet. “It is vital for us (and other Internet services) to be transparent about government requests for user information and government requests to withhold content from the…

From Slate: As part of [Monday’s] festivities, a site called InternetFreedomDay.net was launched. One of the several organizations behind the effort, Fight for the Future, tried to make a point about copyright law by posting a video that included footage of Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his iconic “I Have…

Google’s new privacy policy will consolidate all your data at google.com — unless you erase it first. And Feb. 29 is your last day to do it. Follow the instructions from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on how to delete your web history at Google: Sign into your Google account. Go…

From The Telegraph: Details of every phone call and text message, email traffic and websites visited online are to be stored in a series of vast databases under new Government anti-terror plans. Landline and mobile phone companies and broadband providers will be ordered to store the data for a year…

From The Nation: Just when you thought the Arizona legislature was out of bad ideas. SB 1467, newly introduced in the Arizona State Senate, would force schools and universities to suspend, fine, and ultimately fire any teacher or professor who “engage[d] in speech or conduct that would violate the standards…